This Land Is Your Land | Martin Saiz and Jennifer L. De Maio

- 1Introduction: Principles of American Government and Politics
- 2The Founding and the Constitution: Creating a Nation
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  - 2.1Constitutional Engineering
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  - 2.2Politics in the Colonies
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  - 2.3The Articles of Confederation
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  - 2.4The Constitutional Convention
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  - 2.5What the Framers Framed
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  - 2.6Federalists vs. Anti-Federalists
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  - 2.7The Living Constitution
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  - 2.8What Can I Do?
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- 3Federalism: Two Governments in the Same Area
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  - 3.1Why Federalism?
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  - 3.2Federalism and The Constitution
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  - 3.3The Slow Growth of The National Government’s Power
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  - 3.4The Policy Effects of Federalism
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  - 3.5The Advantages and Disadvantages of Federalism
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  - 3.6What Can I Do?
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  - 3.7What's the Alternative?
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- 4Civil Liberties: Necessary for Democracy to Exist
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  - 4.1Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights
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  - 4.2Civil Liberties as a National Discourse
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  - 4.3First Amendment Rights
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  - 4.4The Second Amendment and Right to Bear Arms
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  - 4.5Rights of the Accused
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  - 4.6Right to Privacy
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  - 4.7Government Responsibility vs. Individual Freedoms
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- 5Civil Rights: Necessary for Equal Treatment
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  - 5.1Inequality and the Law
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  - 5.2The Struggle for Racial Equality
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  - 5.3The Struggle for Gender Equality
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  - 5.4The Struggle for Ethnic and Cultural Equality
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  - 5.5The Struggle for Marginalized Groups
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  - 5.6Slow But Steady Progress
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  - 5.7What Can I Do?
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  - 5.8What’s the Alternative?
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- 6Public Opinion: Even the Busiest American Has One
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  - 6.1A Mob or a Whole Greater Than Its Parts?
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  - 6.2Measuring Public Opinion
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  - 6.3Where Do Public Opinions Come From?
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  - 6.4Effects of Social Background on Public Opinion
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  - 6.5Does Public Opinion Matter?
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  - 6.6What Can I Do?
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- 7Citizen Participation and Voting: America Checks the Fluids
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  - 7.1The Logic of Political Participation
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  - 7.2The Framers’ Understanding of the Problem of Moral Hazard
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  - 7.3Regulating the Electoral Process
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  - 7.4Is Voting Rational?
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  - 7.5Deciding How to Vote: The Problem of Adverse Selection
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  - 7.6Does It Matter Who Participates?
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- 8Political Parties: Making Politics Cost Effective
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  - 8.1Political Parties and Popular Participation
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  - 8.2Parties and Collective Action in Government
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  - 8.3Party Identification Among the Voters
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  - 8.4Parties as Service Institutions
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  - 8.5Why Are There Only Two Major Parties?
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  - 8.6Are the Parties Becoming More Radical?
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  - 8.7Building and Rebuilding National Majorities
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- 9Interest Groups: Effective Participation with an Upper-Class Bias
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  - 9.1Federalist 10 and the Rise of Interest Groups
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  - 9.2Democracy and Group Participation
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  - 9.3The Upper Class and Business Biases of the Interest Group System
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  - 9.4Interest Group Formation, Mobilization, and Maintenance
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  - 9.5Change in the Interest Group System
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  - 9.6Lobbying: How Interest Groups Influence Policy
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- 10Media: Biased or a Business?
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  - 10.1Mass Media Today
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  - 10.2The Evolution of the Mass Media
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  - 10.3The Role of Media
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  - 10.4Media as the Fourth Branch of Government
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  - 10.5Understanding the Relationship Between Media, Government, and the American Public
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- 11The US Congress: We Love Our Representative, but Not the Institution
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  - 11.1District Representation, National Representation, and the Electoral Connection
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  - 11.2Congress and the Constitution
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  - 11.3Getting to Congress and Staying There
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  - 11.4Congress Works in Committees
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  - 11.5Party Leadership in the House and the Senate: The Forces of Centralization
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- 12The President: Hoping for a Hero
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  - 12.1The Constitution and The Presidency: An Invitation to Struggle
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  - 12.2Modern Presidential Government
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  - 12.3What Makes a President Popular?
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  - 12.4Presidential Success and Timing
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- 13Bureaucracy: Who Is Really Doing the Work?
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  - 13.1What Is Bureaucracy?
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  - 13.2The Development of the Bureaucracy
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  - 13.3Major Elements and Roles of the Federal Bureaucracy
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  - 13.4Roles of the Federal Bureaucracy
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  - 13.5Understanding Bureaucracies
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  - 13.6Policy Implementation and the Principal-Agent Problem
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  - 13.7Who Does the Bureaucracy Work For?
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- 14The Federal Courts: Unelected but Powerful
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  - 14.1The American Judicial System
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  - 14.2The Development of the Federal Courts
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  - 14.3Federalism and the American Courts
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  - 14.4The Supreme Court in Action
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  - 14.5Judicial Selection
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  - 14.6Democracy and the Courts
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  - 14.7The Politics of the Apolitical Branch
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- 15Domestic Policy: Taking Care of Things at Home
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  - 15.1Making and Evaluating Public Policy
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  - 15.2Generic Policy Solutions
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  - 15.3Economic Policy
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  - 15.4Social Policy
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  - 15.5Trade-Offs Between Economic and Social Welfare
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- 16Foreign Policy: Engaging in the Global Community
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  - 16.1Foreign Policy Explored
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  - 16.2Key Ideas and Players in U.S. Foreign Policy
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  - 16.3Setting the Foreign Policy Agenda
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  - 16.4Tools of Statecraft
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  - 16.5Challenges to U.S. Foreign Policy
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